With the death early Monday of Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D), West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III (D) must select an interim replacement for a legend who many in the state and elsewhere consider one of a kind.

President Obama traveled to swing state Ohio Friday to showcase the stimulus measure he pushed through Congress 16 months ago -- a sign the administration is fretting over enduring criticism that the $787 billion package has failed to generate enough jobs.

The evangelical magazine World goes Oprah over the question of how to keep a Congressional marriage healthy and gets former representative Mark Sounder of Indiana to talk about how he wound up having an affair.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is the Senate's ultimate car pooler. When two of her colleagues were having trouble finding flights home for the holidays, Feinstein gave them last-minute lifts to the West Coast on her family's private jet.

Retired judge Vic Rawl called for an investigation into the results of the South Carolina Democratic Senate primary and filed a formal protest of last week's election results with the South Carolina Democratic Party on Monday.